The LegendsFacts and Figures

Perpetual reinvention seems to be the driving force behind Johan Angergårds project, the Legends. It was just two years ago that he and his band were producing 60s pop-inspired delights. Then last year he turned the Legends into a one-man show and skipped ahead two decades for a gloomy album filled with nods to the Cure and New Order. Facts and Figures finds the Swedish chameleon progressing yet again, only a couple of years this time, into a full-on synth pop act. Again Angergård flexes his skills for adapting to another style, while maintaining those syrupy sweet lyrics he leaving as a calling card. Unlike the overflow of 80s revivalist acts out there currently spoiling the electronic pop trade, hes got the chops to thrive. As with Public Radio, its difficult at first to accept another direction without taking some time to digest it. There is a lot of cheese sprinkled on this recording, most of which is concentrated on the silly "Disco Sucks  but even that songs pseudo-rapping is humorous good fun. Angergård certainly puts in the hours of research and experimentation to capture his goal. Single "Lucky Star may not be a Madonna cover, but it could have been, considering how closely it emulates that era. Though not the best effort put forward by the Legends, its exciting to follow Angergårds path and guess where hes going to take his next record.
(Labrador)